Cisco + Intel = Acceleration: Podcast

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In this podcast, Rajeev Arora, vice president of marketing and strategy for Blackboard Collaborate, explains how Blackboard Collaborate can help higher learning institutions tackle Web conferencing, voice authoring and instant messaging, and how the solution helps colleges and universities stretch IT budgets farther than ever before.

Education and Government Institutions face intense pressure for cost control and improvement of services

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FAQ

What is cloud computing?

Very simply stated, cloud computing is the delivery of a service or a capability over the network. More specifically, cloud computing refers to IT resources and services that are abstracted from the underlying infrastructure and are provided "on demand" and "at scale" in a multitenant environment.

What are the benefits of cloud computing?

Cloud computing fundamentally changes the way IT services are delivered. Organizations can employ cloud computing to meet their IT requirements using a flexible, on demand, and rapidly scalable model that requires neither ownership on their part, nor provision of dedicated resources.

Are there security issues connected with cloud computing?

Traditional issues around data and resource access control, encryption, and incident detection are factors in cloud computing. The key take-away in cloud data center computing is that security should not be an afterthought or a building block; it should be pervasively implemented across all layers of architecture

In this short video you’ll hear how Intel new processors and Cisco breakthrough innovations allow the company to deliver a complete portfolio ready to address virtually all the applications deployment needs.

On-Demand Webinar:

A growing number of today’s colleges and universities are moving to a from legacy data center infrastructure to a cloud computing model. This session will detail the benefits and value of cloud computing and provide a blueprint for making it a reality on your campus.

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About the Sponsors | Cisco and Intel

As the world’s leading provider of networking for colleges and universities, Cisco offers profound experience in technology that benefits both education and its administration. More than any other company, we know how to create a solid network foundation that enables operational efficiency, academic excellence, and a safe environment. Cisco’s approach, Connected Learning, leverages your campus network to deliver solutions for online learning, mobility, data and physical security, IP telephony, web-based and video conferencing, digital media, unified communications, smart buildings, and more.

Intel Corporation supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers and networking and communications products. Intel’s mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy. Intel is a trusted advisor and consultant to education in the technology field. Through our relationships with manufacturers and application service providers for both content and services, we are able to advise and help schools and districts move as far down the technology road as possible.